Thread: My letter to Jolla and what was wrong with Harmattan
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arkanoid is offline arkanoid
2012-08-14 , 15:56
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Originally Posted by zamorph View Post
I must say that I absolutely loved the PIM capabilities of the old PalmPilots! Loved how Syncing and the Palm Desktop worked.

But then my last Palm broke, and I had all my PIM data locked up in Palm Desktop and couldn't export all my calendar data. And I moved away from Windows on which the Palm Desktop software ran.

While the N900 and N9 calendar works nicely, I haven't gotten syncing working yet - and am not so sure of Google having ALL of my data just yet!
I always hated Palm because it was non-autonomous and not self-sufficient. If you have a Palm it means you have a "computer" to sync with somewhere, otherwise your productivity is seriously impaired. Even back in 1994 it was obvious that the idea is flawed, that's why I owned a pocket PC (real x86, I mean) instead. Maybe it sucked big time with PIM usability, but hardware keyboard and native software were the killer features (former one is why I was not into Psions)

And PalmOS was a complete disaster in just every aspect. It survived CPU architecture change with no refactoring. All ugly hacks and glitches that were invented to keep the price tag low on 1994 hardware were to stay forever til it died due to natural reasons in 2005 or whenever. I owned a Sony UX50, the top device and even s80v1 looked like advanced OS being compared to it.

But I was not impressed with Palm's native PIM at all. Agendus is all different story, it was real state of the art thing.
Last edited by arkanoid; 2012-08-14 at 16:02.